Where does your interest in geology stem from? Did you collect rocks as a child? Yes, I was an avid mineral and fossil collector as a child. My prize possession was a geological hammer and any exposed

This month’s images are provided by Neil Scarlett, a West Yorkshire-based enthusiast. He says: “My earliest railway memories are as a 12-year-old watching grimy steam-hauled freights passing the botto

“This tremendous aggregate of a book has many of the characteristics of a Festschrift assembled to honour some Great Influencer”: so, in 1973, the architectural historian Priscilla Metcalf began the f

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The beauty of Lancashire’s Lune valley emerges from ...

The year 1982 was a good one for me. It was my third year of trainspotting and when I really ramped it up, with epic trips to Scotland, the North East, the London depots, and South Wales. These were t